I appreciate what they are doing. Surprised at how 80s it sounds. For being such an indie influence the tone is not what I expected. Know I’m supposed to like this more
I’m surprised at how energetic this is, and melodic. It’s maybe a 4 because I like how different it is. I do not understand where this came from. I don’t understand in general where metal comes from or who it’s speaking to. Not who the audience is, but who the anger is directed towards.
4 stars, this is a lot different than I thought. Can hear the late 70s vibe much more in the non hit songs. A lot more variety
So great, listening back I hear old Wilco with lots of layered sounds added. I wonder if the new albums are more sound oriented from their inception
Some really good songs, some great guitar and beats, but not a great album
I don’t think there’s a prominent stready guitar until the third or fourth song. The bass is what stands out to me. The album is great stray cat, blues, and salt of the Earth are tonally not great. The music structure of salt of the Earth are so good but what a weird subject matter and delivery for this band.
Not great, definitely not an album I needed to listen to at any point. Big band playing the same punchy notes all together, while impressive I guess, just really isn’t that good. I can imagine this would be cool to see live, because then the band adds an element of excitement to it, and maybe you can hear each instrument better. But the whole band playing a quick melody and then a solo instrument playing a counterpoint just isn’t really a sustainable conversation. The soloist is free to solo, but the band has to play their well rehearsed part. It’s not actually engaging. There were interesting moments in the album where there were some good solos, but those were only like 15 seconds long. There is some good drumming. That punchy blare of the band is just really repetitive and grating. This is a product of its time though and so it’s complicated to judge it now. It’s interesting to think about where this falls in the history of music before recording and after recording. And before advanced microphones and after advanced microphones. I’m guessing the band size grew as venue and crowd sizes grew, not because a big band sounded better per se, or there was something missing artistically or expressively that a smaller band couldn’t do, but more to do with being loud for a big audience. So that makes this something of an artifact, not necessarily a good artwork as far as the album genre goes. This has its roots firmly in music traditions that were meant to be played live without sophisticated sound systems.
I like the songs monitor and Night Shift. The rest of the album, I’m glad someone made this album and I’m happy for them, but I don’t love it. This album listening thing has made me very irritated with my music critic voice in my head. Like I don’t need to be a music critic. My opinion on music shouldn’t sound like a music critics opinion. Ratingthings from one to five stars kind of set it up to be a music critic exercise. I feel compelled to say something interesting about why I like or don’t like an album. I think for the most part I’ll stick with how it makes me feel and if I like it or not. I don’t have anything like that to say for this album because I was pretending to be a music critic while every song. Next time.
Two stars, my star system is one star some redeeming qualities, two stars more interesting things happening appreciate it, but it’s not for me, three stars a really good album, four stars great album, five stars one of the best albums
Oh I needed this in my life.
Fun trying to figure bjork out, interesting music.
The music was interesting and good at times, and then things really went off the rails around the ice cube and Fred Durst Songs. The album deals with a lot of abuse themes?
I can’t believe this came out in 1994, it sounds much newer than that. This is a really good album.
I never heard this before and it is awesome 4 to 5 stars.
This is a great album, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s not cool about his album. There’s a lot of things that don’t really fit in my idea of a Bob Dylan album or Bob Dylan songs. The laughing producer, recording engineer on that one track with a false start, I don’t think there’s anything like that on any other Bob Dylan song Even a bootleg that I can think of. I’m so focused on 1997 and on Bob Dylan in various periods before that, that I don’t readily identify with this Dillon album as being pretty close to what most people think of when they hear Bob Dylan. To me this sounds very much still like a folk album with some Electric interesting instrumentations. Lyrically though it’s not really Woody Guthrie inspired, but it’s also not later hounded and focused literary Dillon. Some of the phrases just aren’t really that good. I like the song like on the road again, but it seems pretty off the cuff I’m more playful and improvisational than some carefully studied poet tree. I say that because I wonder if Bob Dylan writing it at the time would’ve considered that people 60 years later would be listening to it. Listening to the album now it’s easier to see that it’s a subversion of normal blues and folk tropes. I think the hundred times I listen to it before I never really connected with that, it just sounded like Bob Dylan.
Two stars. A lot to like, a lot of good playing and cool ideas.There’s like two things happening here, a really good rock band and vocal harmonies. I don’t think it’s a very good mix the lyrics and vocals aren’t my thing. But that song Hoochie is really great.
Oh I think this linked to the wrong album. I listened to ‘69.
805. Please change your mind before my sunshine is gone. I do not like these lyrics.
On the heels of watching love actually last night I’m not in the mood for shmaltzy problematic bullshit. The guy singing this is a pathetic loser and needs to know when to let go.
Five stars, this is so good.
This music doesn’t move the way my body moves. I like a lot of of what I think people would call cerebral rock, but all the examples I could think of move me too. This doesn’t. The song this year‘s girl starts off kind of interesting, and then the synthesizer starts and I hear Elvis Costello‘s voice, and I’m just not into it. Do you think I could piss a lot of people off by calling Elvis Costello, the white man’s Prince? I think it’s just fair enough to scan but also really annoying.
Elvis Costello‘s problems are not my problems. I think that really sums up why I have never cared for gotten into his music. It’s whiny. He’s annoying and sounds always like a high school kid complaining that girls don’t like him.
You can be a musical genius, and have really cool and eclectic influences, and great production, and still make bad music!
The longer this went on the more I disliked it. I guess they’ve got a lot of energy, but this feels real low effort. Kind of a you had to be there, music for a certain time and place, energy to it. I’m sure someone could give me a list of 10 albums, five that this was influenced by and five that this was reacting against, that would put this in perspective. I still wouldn’t like it though.
I really didn’t care for it. The first listen through, but by accident it was on repeat and a day later when I got in the car, it was on again. It sounded pretty good.
Too much falsetto, uneven album and p diddy
Def did not need to listen to this before I die
Princes melodies are corny. maybe that’s the point, maybe there’s some genius behind it, some elevation, but it’s never broken through for me.
“Alright, this take, don’t give a fuck” studio banter has a 1% chance of not being cringe. This is cringe. This album is great. I think my idea of Billy corgan is almost in the way of enjoying smashing pumpkins. Too much time wondering what he is like as a person. It’d be better just not ever considering that. Such an interesting mix of hard and soft sounds. I did get stuck on his delivery of this - soft line, hard line, angel baby voice, yelling, etc etc
